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as in moralist
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Recent Examples of moralizer
Fowler certainly was a moralizer, just maybe not in the way Jespersen meant.
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Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralizer
Noun
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Better to stay clean and inconspicuous, like hotel artwork, which was fine for a preacher’s son.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Sight & Sound production in honor of America’s 250th anniversary ths year explores the friendship between firebrand preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, and how Franklin’s resulting recognition of the role of faith changed history.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Apr. 2026
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For every cultural good, identity has become fused with the object of interest, turning previously normal people leading unremarkable lives into Steak ’n Shake beef-tallow purists, Harry Potter moralists, or cast-iron-pan-cleaning radicals.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2026
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Of course, morality can still play a role in political thinking, just not the all-encompassing and determinative one that moralists ascribe to it.—
Andrew Day,
Washington Post,
28 Jan. 2026
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Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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Wilzig became a dedicated collector, author and lecturer, eventually amassing thousands of pieces that explored human sexuality across cultures and centuries.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2026
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However, rather than blithely dismiss the consequences of legalization with eye-rolling contempt for the puritans, supporters should confront the adverse societal effects of cannabis — the pervasive urban stench, the traffic deaths and the pernicious effects on youth.—
Cory Franklin,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Austere antiquity is in constant conflict with more sensual, modern impulses — a tension that feels productive applied to a story of the Shakers, puritans whom time has proven too pure for this world.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
1 Sep. 2025
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Partway through the story, the reader learns something that upends our understanding of what’s going on.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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For the last six weeks, The Providence Journal has asked readers to weigh in on our bracket competition to find Rhode Island's best pizza.—
Will Richmond,
The Providence Journal,
11 Apr. 2026
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Reconciliation today Searching for a path forward, contemporary Sámi artist and Lutheran catechist Lars Levi Sunna began to produce church art that incorporated and celebrated pre-Christian Sámi symbols – some of the very traditions that had been demonized by clergy of the past.—
Thomas A. DuBois,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
18 Nov. 2019
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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